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Utopias
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Some utopias become purer, harder, and harsher as they diminish, like an evaporating lake growing more saline every year in its shores of crystalline salt: think of the theorist-revolutionary Guy Debord, ostracizing and expelling people from the Situationist International movement until you could fit the future of artsy council communism around the back table of a Parisian bar. Some utopias dilute into the surrounding society that gives them context - the well-lit, spare, clean, glass-and-steel
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― Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
― Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
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Strike two for Utopia. The problem with the damned things always comes when you try to introduce actual people into your philosophical constructs.
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― Carnival
― Carnival